2019-09-15T10:46:05ZWILHELM WEITLING: HIS DOCTRINES AND AGITATION IN SWITZERLANDhttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/24776
WILHELM WEITLING: HIS DOCTRINES AND AGITATION IN SWITZERLAND
Flavin, Harold
1950-01-01T00:00:00ZSocial and Political Thought In The Early Narrative Of Rómula Gallegoshttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/24750
Social and Political Thought In The Early Narrative Of Rómula Gallegos
Allen, R.F.
This dissertation is a study of the essays and short stories
written by Rómulo Gallegos in the early years of the twentieth century.
It traces his social and political ideas which were set forth in his essays
and transferred into the early narrative work of the author. The
essays and short stories, presented chronologically according to their
date of publication, represent his successive works. Gallegos' ideas
derive from the corruption of his native Venezuela ruled by anarchy
and dictatorship.
Born in Caracas in 1884 under the dictatorial regime of Cipriano
Castro, Gallegos first attracted a reading public in 1906 with his collection
of essays published originally in the literary journal La Alborada.
The essays, from the obscure files of this long dead periodical, constitute the symposium entitled Una posición en la vida, 1954. Showing the
influence of nineteenth century European and Latin-American positivism,
these essays set forth his fundamental social and political beliefs
and reforms . Another dictator, Juan Vicente Gómez, put an end to this
literary activity by closing the review.
Gallegos then made his debut as a short story writer, publishing
more than thirty stories in the literary periodicals entitled El Cojo
Ilustrado, La Revista, Actualidades, and La Novela Semanal. In these
stories, the patriotic preoccupations of the essays come to life.
Eventually Gallegos became a novelist, establishing himself as
a major writer of Spanish-American fiction. He is noted for his intention
to effect reform and for his interest in the traditions and the national
soul of the Venezuelan people. This dissertation shows the trends
started in the essays, applied to the short stories, and developed to a
larger scope in the novel.
1961-01-01T00:00:00ZWolfgang Borchert: A Representative of "Trümmerliteratur"?http://hdl.handle.net/1903/24739
Wolfgang Borchert: A Representative of "Trümmerliteratur"?
Hohenwarter, Jyl Marie
This investigation examines whether Wolfgang Borchert's short stories are representative of "Trümmerliteratur". By "Trümmerliteratur" I am referring to that short period in 20th century German Literature which was manifested by the causes and effects of World War II (1945-1947). Borchert's biographical data, the events leading to the emergence of "Trümmerliteratur" and a definition for and discussion of this literary phenomenon, and an analysis of four of Borchert's "Kurzgeschichten", ''Die Hundeblume", "Vier Soldaten", "Der Kaffee ist undefinierbar", and "Er hatte auch viel Ärger mit den Kriegen", are presented. Investigation includes as well an extensive bibliography.
1989-01-01T00:00:00ZÉCRITURE ET IMAGINAIRE : POÉTIQUE DE L’IDENTITÉ DANS L’ŒUVRE DE NINA BOURAOUIhttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22199
ÉCRITURE ET IMAGINAIRE : POÉTIQUE DE L’IDENTITÉ DANS L’ŒUVRE DE NINA BOURAOUI
Vigeant, Sophie Dali
This work examines the connection between identity and writing in Nina Bouraoui’s
entire body of work, which spans a period of twenty-seven years (1991-2018) and is
composed of sixteen novels, both fictional and autobiographical. I specifically look at
the ways in which the author’s mixed heritage – Algerian father and French mother –
informs her work and fuels her quest for identity in a world that constantly challenges
her sense of self, shaping the way in which she recreates a place to negotiate the
internal tensions through her writings. Drawing on theoretical discourses on cultural
hybridity, I proceed to an analysis of the author’s writing processes, including her
own reflections on cultural in-betweenness; her reliance on metaphors connected to
the body as a “palimpseste” and nature as a refuge; the role of historical memory in
the construction of the self; and her need to transcend binary paradigms to create her
own history as a woman and her own story as a writer.
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